-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John E. Perry wrote:
On 11/30/2009 4:01 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
... Being a fairly HOF myself, but not tied too tightly to the Ancient Computing World, I see the development of GUI's as a brilliantly
John Andersen wrote: positive step forward that can make the full power of computing available to anyone who has the moxie to work with it at all, and I refuse to accept the declaration that only the command line can give you real power.
As I remember using a Sun box with a GUI interface in about 1985ish (and it had been around for some time then), the GUI is hardly new or innovative in 2009. What is disappointing is the complete inability to move beyond ideas in that initial interface in the 24+ years since. It has been dressed up in all sorts of fancy clothes since, but the underlying semantics have not changed much. - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksU/pYACgkQasN0sSnLmgKSCgCfb1IthsQWsY2i7mG+lhj9mmPA djIAoJkEIzBg4qA2pnKq/XhPdr/5gVV0 =qZzG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org